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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9475352" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Can I take a quick tanget to say how much I UTTERLY DESPISE the fact that &quot;cartoon&quot; is still used a pejorative about quality? Our entire flipping culture has been shaped by &quot;cartoons&quot;. There are entire college courses studying animation and the works of Warner Bros, Disney, and Hanna-Barbera. The animation industry is a 400 BILLION dollar industry. To put that into proper perspective, the Film Industry, you know, Hollywood? It is valued around $285 Billion. Video Game industry is about $184 Billion, the PC industry is 291 Billion.And yet people STILL go on about how &quot;Well, it looks like a cartoon, so therefore it cannot have any serious quality or value to it, because Cartoons are cheap products made for children by people with no skill, unlike REAL entertainment&quot; just like they did back in the flippin' 50's Does that mean you need to love a cartoon style (whatever that is since there are literally hundreds of different styles of animation)? No, obviously not. But it is just so irritating to see this ubiquity of using &quot;cartoon&quot; as an insult to the quality of art.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9475352, member: 6801228"] Can I take a quick tanget to say how much I UTTERLY DESPISE the fact that "cartoon" is still used a pejorative about quality? Our entire flipping culture has been shaped by "cartoons". There are entire college courses studying animation and the works of Warner Bros, Disney, and Hanna-Barbera. The animation industry is a 400 BILLION dollar industry. To put that into proper perspective, the Film Industry, you know, Hollywood? It is valued around $285 Billion. Video Game industry is about $184 Billion, the PC industry is 291 Billion. And yet people STILL go on about how "Well, it looks like a cartoon, so therefore it cannot have any serious quality or value to it, because Cartoons are cheap products made for children by people with no skill, unlike REAL entertainment" just like they did back in the flippin' 50's Does that mean you need to love a cartoon style (whatever that is since there are literally hundreds of different styles of animation)? No, obviously not. But it is just so irritating to see this ubiquity of using "cartoon" as an insult to the quality of art. [/QUOTE]

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